Joseph Arditti is Professor Emeritus, Developmental & Cell Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. The founding editor of Orchid Biology and Reviews and Perspectives, he earned his doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1965.
To many repetition of some already mentioned data. It is OK to repeat procedures and formulas where is its place, but repeat name and some boring data each time... More than 1500 pages, I assume than more than 100 pages are that type data.